KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: South Africa’s political impasse deepened with no resolution to extended talks over Zuma’s expected departure from office after his own party called for him to resign. AMERICAS: After five decades of civil war, the former guerrillas of Colombia never thought it would be easy to reinvent themselves into a political party. ASIA:

KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: African powers launched a new multinational military force in the Sahel, which France’s President Emmanuel Macron told a regional summit should be fully operational by the autumn. AMERICAS: The leader of the Colombian FARC rebel group, Rodrigo Londoño, is being treated in hospital for a stroke and expected to make a

KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: Libya’s eastern forces say they have gained control over one of two key remaining districts in Benghazi where they had faced armed resistance. AMERICAS: Eight people from a little-known rebel group were arrested in Colombia on suspicion of being involved in the explosion of a homemade bomb at a shopping mall